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Raffles had vanished from the face of the town, and even I had no conception of his whereabouts until he cabled to me to meet the 7.31 at Charing Cross next night. That was on the Tuesday before the 'Varsity match, or a full fortnight after his mysterious disappearance. The telegram was from Carlsbad, of all places for Raffles of all men!
Raffles had concealed his full knowledge of the creature's duplicity, had enjoyed leading him on from lie to lie, and I had enjoyed listening almost as much as I now delighted in the dilemma in which Levy had landed himself; for either he must sign and look pleasant, or else abandon his innocent posture altogether; and so he looked as pleasant as he could, and signed in his handcuffs, with but the shadow of a fight for their immediate removal.
I broke with her once," said Raffles, grimly, "but I know her. If I had been asked to name the one person in London by whom I was keenest NOT to be bowled out, I should have named Jacques Saillard." That he had never before named her to me was as characteristic as the reticence with which Raffles spoke of their past relations, and even of their conversation in the back drawing-room that evening.
Of course I wanted to go too he shook my hand without a word but how could I? They would never have me, a branded jailbird, in the Imperial Yeomanry! Raffles burst out laughing; he had been looking very hard at me for about three seconds. "You rabbit," he cried, "even to think of it! We might as well offer ourselves to the Metropolitan Police Force.
I left the flat in considerable dejection after all, unable to decide whether Raffles was really ill, or only worried as I knew him to be. And at the foot of the stairs the author of my dismissal, that confounded Theobald, flung open his door and waylaid me. "Are you going?" he demanded.
"So it shall be, Raffles, if you come up with me to my office!" "I dare say." "To my bank, then!" "I prefer to go alone. You will kindly make it an open cheque payable to bearer." The fountain pen was poised over the chequebook, but only because I had placed it in Levy's fingers, and was holding the cheque-book under them.
'I 'ope you will I 'ope so. "And find her I did." Raffles had been on his feet some time, unable to sit still or to stand, moving excitedly about the room. But now he stood still enough, his elbows on the cast-iron mantelpiece, his head between his hands. "Dead?" I whispered. And he nodded to the wall. "There was not a sound in the cave. There was no answer to my voice.
Raffles, consisting only of a part of the 14th Regiment, a troop of the 22nd Light Dragoons and the ordinary garrison of Bengal Sepoys in the Fort and at the Residency, were not in a condition to enforce terms anyway obnoxious to the personal feelings of the Sultan. The whole retinue, indeed, of the Governor were in imminent danger of being murdered.
"But does anybody know anything of Mr. Raffles except as a cricketer?" "I do," said I, with injudicious alacrity. "Well," said Miss Belsize, "what else is he?" "The best fellow in the world, among other things." "But what other things?" "Ask Teddy!" I said unluckily. "I have," replied Miss Belsize. "But Teddy doesn't know. He often wonders how Mr.
"I tried them once, and I didn't like 'em myself. It's all a question of taste. Now, if you want a good smoke, and cheaper, give me a Golden Gem at quarter of the price." "What we really do want," remarked Raffles mildly, "is to see something else as clever as that last."
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